SURG/SURF Proposals: DEADLINE March 20th

$3500 SUMMER 2013 Fellowships
$500/$1000 Summer and Fall 2013 SURG

PROPOSAL WRITING WORKSHOPS

Tuesday, March 5: 12:00-1:00 p.m., University Center, Peter/Wright Rooms
Monday, March 18: 4:30–5:30 p.m., Baker Hall, 136A (Adamson Wing)

$3500 Summer Fellowships
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) are open to ALL undergraduates interested in any form of research.   Awards are available of $3500 for eight to ten weeks of full-time summer research on campus in any field of study. Summer Research Fellowships are very competitive.  Students may work alone or in a group, but must apply for the Fellowship as an individual - no group awards are  available.  There are special guidelines for Arts and Creative Humanities Proposals.

Summer SURG/Fall SURG
Small Undergraduate Research Grants (SURG) are open to* ALL *undergraduates in any discipline, freshmen-seniors.  Grants are available of up to $500 for single entries and up to $1,000 for group entries to cover such things as the costs of supplies and materials, time on laboratory equipment, or travel to another city for data.

The deadline for Fall/Summer 2013 SURG and Summer 2013 Fellowship proposals is March 20th, 2013 at 5 PM.

Apply online at www.cmu.edu/uro/ <http://www.cmu.edu/uro/> . We strongly recommend that students review a draft of  their proposal with Jennifer Keating-Miller, URO Assistant Director (jkeating@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:jkeating@andrew.cmu.edu> )  or with Stephanie Wallach, URO Director (sw4s@andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:sw4s@andrew.cmu.edu> ) at least a week before the deadline.  Please send email for an appointment.

You may also want to participate in our SURG/SURF Application Workshops:

Tuesday, March 5: 12:00-1:00 p.m., University Center, Peter/Wright Rooms
Monday, March 18: 4:30–5:30 p.m., Baker Hall, 136A (Adamson Wing)
 
 Make a contribution.  Work with a mentor.  Follow a passion.  Develop an idea.  Solve a problem. Create, build, perform. APPLY for SURG/SURF

#NFTRW Podcast

This week's articles:

1. The Keys to Higher Productivity? More Sleep, More Breaks, Less Time Doing Work
2. 25 Years Strong, 'Phantom Of The Opera' Kills And Kills Again
3. Live Sound: Putting Safety First In Live Sound
4. Relax! You'll Be More Productive
5. Carrie Underwood dress lights up Grammys
6. Equity at 100: How Actors' Equity Pushed for Racial Equality
7. A warning to college profs from a high school teacher
8. All the People
9. Interview with Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
10. As 3-D Printing Becomes More Accessible, Copyright Questions Arise

Featuring: Margo, Lauren, & Jake

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the last week:

The Largest Floating Stage in the World

TwistedSifter: Located in Singapore, the Float at Marina Bay is the largest floating stage in the world. Made entirely of steel, the floating platform measures 120 meters (393.7 ft) long and 83 meters (272.3 ft) wide. The platform can bear 1,070 tonnes and is fixed to the seabed by six pylons. The gallery at the stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000 people.

Posted by David at 3/03/2013 03:45:00 PM-- 19 Comments Here

The Stop-Motion Puppets of Frankenweenie

Tested: Tim Burton's Frankenweenie is the director's second movie to receive an Academy Award nomination (after 2005's Corpse Bride), and both are notable because they're works of stop-motion animation. This short featurette from Disney tours the puppet shop where Frankenweeie's characters are built and brought to life

Posted by David at 3/03/2013 04:02:00 PM-- 11 Comments Here

Cover Letters: Top 10 Tips To Writing A Successful One

Come Recommended: You want to know about cover letters? First let’s talk about… speed dating. It’s a modern concept that involves equal numbers of men and women in a room. Using a round-robin format, each man and woman get a chance to meet for a short time — usually between three and five minutes. This method is designed to let every person put on a brief “presentation” in an effort to earn the opportunity to begin a courtship or longer-term relationship with another individual. But this overall approach to selecting candidates has always been used in the business world. In other words, job searches are like “speed dating” between employers and applicants. And what’s the “brief presentation” in this simile? Your cover letter.

Posted by David at 3/02/2013 04:28:00 PM-- 11 Comments Here

SeaWorld Orlando announces grand opening for Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin

www.themeparkinsider.com: SeaWorld Orlando today announced it will officially open its newest addition, Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, on May 24, 2013. The attraction is replacing the old Penguin Encounter and is billed to be the coldest theme park attraction in the world. SeaWorld says its construction is right on time and offered us these two sneak peeks.

Posted by David at 3/03/2013 03:52:00 PM-- 10 Comments Here

Making Your Business Card Social-Media Friendly

Come Recommended: Forging connections in the digital age isn’t always as easy as it once was. When we’re so used to being able to hit the “connect” button on social networking sites, the majority of us have come to focus on building our network online and completely miss out on important face-to-face opportunities. It’s time to use social networking and in-person networking in tandem. Never fear, your trusty business card will be certain to fuel your real-life connectivity. These little pieces of information have been used for centuries, and they aren’t going out of style any time soon. In fact, they’re becoming an increasingly more important way to connect others with your online accounts.

Posted by David at 3/03/2013 03:37:00 PM-- 10 Comments Here

Living with Photography: The Hold Steady

Tested: Below is one of my favorite photos I took last year. I shot it at New York's Museum of the Moving Image when we were in town last September. The exhibit was for the most recent Men in Black movie, with props and costumes from the film on display. It's a wonderfully detailed mask, which while I assume is made of latex, but looks much slimier than rubber. But the reason I like this photo so much is because of the conditions in which I was able to take it. Even though this mask was lit under a spotlight, the exhibit hall that housed it was extremely dark. Under automatic settings, I would expect a camera to bump the ISO up to at least 1600 for a scene like this. That's not for me. This photo was taken at 200 ISO (the lowest on my camera), and a full half second exposure. Completely handheld.

"Don't Imagine That You Can Bully Me"

The Baker Street Blog: The noted Sherlockian scholar, Baker Street Irregular and prominent attorney Leslie Klinger, editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library and The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship, to name a few, has filed a civil lawsuit against the Conan Doyle Estate to determine that the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in fact in the public domain.

PBT season to feature 'Swan Lake,' Tharp tribute and Dwight Rhoden

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 2013-14 season is packed with powerhouse pieces and choreographers from classical and contemporary dance. The 44th season will open in October with a tribute to American dance icon Twyla Tharp that features two of her works. "In the Upper Room" from the 1980s is a stamina-testing piece set to a Philip Glass score that PBT last performed in 2010, packaged with Paul Taylor's 1940s period piece "Company B." This time, the program also will feature "Nine Sinatra Songs," one of the many times Ms. Tharp has choreographed to the music of Ol' Blue Eyes.

The Stop-Motion Puppets of Frankenweenie

Tested: Tim Burton's Frankenweenie is the director's second movie to receive an Academy Award nomination (after 2005's Corpse Bride), and both are notable because they're works of stop-motion animation. This short featurette from Disney tours the puppet shop where Frankenweeie's characters are built and brought to life

Dance review: Staycee Pearl's '... on being ...' explores self-identity through movement

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It's rare when a choreographer executes what seems to be a 180-degree turn in her craft. Staycee Pearl gave us "OCTAVIA" last year, a work based on Octavia Butler, a little-known African-American science fiction writer who was a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" recipient. Last weekend at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, audiences found her company, Staycee Pearl dance project, headed along a totally new path with "... on being ...," which dealt with "post-blackness," a wide-ranging term that acknowledges a rich heritage but is not defined by it.

Civic Theatre production finds common strains in love stories

TribLIVE: Greensburg Civic Theatre offers theatergoers a sentimental Valentine with its production this weekend of Joe DiPietro's musical revue, “I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.” The show being staged at Greensburg Garden and Civic Center explores the many emotions of love — from excitement and insecurities to joys, tears and passion, says Alyssa Bruno, one of the six actors in the cast who divvy up the personalities of more than 20 featured characters.

SeaWorld Orlando announces grand opening for Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin

www.themeparkinsider.com: SeaWorld Orlando today announced it will officially open its newest addition, Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin, on May 24, 2013. The attraction is replacing the old Penguin Encounter and is billed to be the coldest theme park attraction in the world. SeaWorld says its construction is right on time and offered us these two sneak peeks.

The Largest Floating Stage in the World

TwistedSifter: Located in Singapore, the Float at Marina Bay is the largest floating stage in the world. Made entirely of steel, the floating platform measures 120 meters (393.7 ft) long and 83 meters (272.3 ft) wide. The platform can bear 1,070 tonnes and is fixed to the seabed by six pylons. The gallery at the stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000 people.

Making Your Business Card Social-Media Friendly

Come Recommended: Forging connections in the digital age isn’t always as easy as it once was. When we’re so used to being able to hit the “connect” button on social networking sites, the majority of us have come to focus on building our network online and completely miss out on important face-to-face opportunities. It’s time to use social networking and in-person networking in tandem. Never fear, your trusty business card will be certain to fuel your real-life connectivity. These little pieces of information have been used for centuries, and they aren’t going out of style any time soon. In fact, they’re becoming an increasingly more important way to connect others with your online accounts.

Internships

The Historic Asolo Theater at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida is offering two paid internships in technical production from June 10 – August 3, 2013. The Ringling is part of Florida State University and serves as the State Art Museum of Florida. Located on a 66-acre site overlooking Sarasota Bay, it consists of an art museum, circus museum, historic home, theater, and research library.

The interns will work closely with the Technical Director in pre-load-in preparation, load-in, and technical/dress rehearsals for the Historic Asolo’s summer circus production. The intern will also work with the performers once the show is in performance to maintain production integrity and smooth day-to-day operations including the run of the show. The performance schedule is two shows a day, Tuesday thru Saturday for six weeks. Each performance lasts approximately one hour.

Interns earn $11.25 per hour (less taxes) and are paid bi-weekly. Interns are responsible for their own housing (the Museum will assist with locating nearby rentals).

Ideal candidates will have minimum 2 years technical theater experience and a recently completed degree in Theater.

Application materials can be found on the Museum’s website at http://www.ringling.org/Opportunities.aspx.  The application deadline is March 15, 2013

Class is in session: City Theatre's 'Seminar' offers lessons

TribLIVE: “Seminar” is a comedy for anybody who loves reading or writing, says City Theatre Company artistic director Tracy Brigden. “It's a snappy, smart, funny contemporary play,” says Brigden, who also is directing Theresa Rebeck's comedy about four young writers and the literary superstar they hire to mentor them to greatness.

Public Theater ponders masterpieces

TribLIVE: Ask Ted Pappas to name a theatrical masterpiece, and he offers a half-dozen titles. Not coincidentally, all six are the Pittsburgh Public Theater producing artistic director's choices for the company's 2013-14 Masterpiece Season. Between Sept. 26 and June 29, 2014, the Public will offer three dramas, a musical, a comedy and a farce that measure up to Pappas' standards for greatness.

Meet the new guard running British theatre

Stage | The Guardian: You wait ages for a top job in British theatre – and then 11 come along at once. When, back in the autumn of 2010, Michael Grandage decided to quit as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in London, few could have guessed that so many others in the profession would join the scramble. Rachel Kavanaugh at Birmingham Rep was off a few months later. The following July, Nicolas Kent announced he was leaving London's tiny but powerful Tricycle after 28 years, rapidly followed by the artistic director of Scotland's Traverse. In October 2011, the top spots at the Royal Shakespeare Company fell vacant, followed in December by their equivalents at the Royal Court.

Upright Citizens Brigade Grows by Not Paying Performers

NYTimes.com: With the kind of young audience that theater producers have long courted and a bustling school (costing about $400 a class), the Upright Citizens Brigade — which has three sites on two coasts and has inspired competitors like the PIT and the Magnet, creating a new theater sphere in New York — is one of the great success stories of the new comedy boom. But as the theater expands, not paying performers raises questions about not just labor standards but also about diversity and what comedy will look like in popular culture.

Cover Letters: Top 10 Tips To Writing A Successful One

Come Recommended: You want to know about cover letters? First let’s talk about… speed dating. It’s a modern concept that involves equal numbers of men and women in a room. Using a round-robin format, each man and woman get a chance to meet for a short time — usually between three and five minutes. This method is designed to let every person put on a brief “presentation” in an effort to earn the opportunity to begin a courtship or longer-term relationship with another individual. But this overall approach to selecting candidates has always been used in the business world. In other words, job searches are like “speed dating” between employers and applicants. And what’s the “brief presentation” in this simile? Your cover letter.

Dance review: PBT's 'Moulin 'Rouge' needs more reckless abandon

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Ah, the course of true love never did run smooth. With that Shakespearean thought in mind, choreographer Jorden Morris latched onto Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's latest production, "Moulin Rouge -- The Ballet," concocting a sprawling story filled with fact and fiction to bring the famed Parisian cabaret to life. With this local premiere, the Benedum Center audiences could easily come away with a modern-day sensibility of the juicy excitement that the Moulin Rouge brought to Paris when it first opened in 1889. Mr. Morris did his research well, weaving in the original founder, Charles Zidler, as the villain, plus a virtuosic Toulouse-Lautrec, and actual high-kicking Moulin Rouge stars La Goulue and Mome Fromage.

Oscar-Nominated Director Benh Zeitlin on Not Waiting For Permission

Articles :: 99U: Rather than seeing himself as a godlike director-figure who controls all the shots, he works within a collective form of filmmaking, a group of artists called Court 13, where everyone has creative input into the final product. The 30-year-old writer, director and composer of Beasts of the Southern Wild shows just what kind of amazing filmmaking can result when you turn the system on its head. This epic film takes us deep into the mind of Hushpuppy, played by Quvenzhané Wallis as she struggles to deal with the loss of her father Wink, played by Dwight Henry, as well as her home in the marshes in Southern Louisiana.

CMU student, Albulena Borovci, wins costume design award

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Ribbons of brocade lined with baroque embroidery flashed across the stage of Carnegie Mellon's Philip Chosky Theater in 18th-century luxury. Designer Albulena Borovci watched from the wings as her watercolor sketches twirled to life in CMU's adaptation of the romantic comedy, "The Rivals." Although it has been several months since the October premiere of the show, Ms. Borovci, 24, a third-year graduate student studying costume design at CMU, recently received acclaim for her work when she was awarded the Zelma Weisfeld Costume Design Award by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.

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Vitals: I’m stressed, you’re stressed, your partner is stressed, even our pets are stressed. But according a new survey from the American Psychological Association, the most stressed generation of adults in the nation is also the youngest. So-called “Millennials,” defined here as American adults ages 18 to 34, reported higher stress levels than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, and more Millennials said that their stress level had increased in the last year. And 52 percent of this age group even said stress had kept them up at night.

Dance review: Bodiography's moving 'Whispers' explores children's loss, healing

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Sometimes movement can unlock emotions words cannot. Choreographer Maria Caruso tapped into this Martha Graham-esque sentiment when her company, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, premiered last weekend "Whispers of Light: A Story of Hope," inspired by ways children grapple with grief. For Bodiography devotees, the work was a change for Ms. Caruso, whose productions the past couple of years have involved medical themes and relationships with local surgeons and patients. This time, she collaborated with the Highmark Caring Place, a support system for children coping with loss.

Fast-paced 'Buffalo' heats up Theatre Factory stage

TribLIVE: Looking for a cure for the winter blues? Director F.J. Hartland says that Theatre Factory's latest production, “Moon Over Buffalo,” will do the trick. “If anyone is feeling down or going crazy with cabin fever, this show is good for what ails you. It's just laugh-out-loud funny,” he says.

Fashion interns don't get paid

The Jane Dough: If you think The Feminine Mystique isn’t still relevant today, then you have got another think coming. Atlantic writer Phoebe Maltz Bovy recently pointed out that unpaid internships, especially those in fashion, are often written off as a rich kid problem — specifically, a rich girl problem, as women take the majority of unpaid internships and usually have another source of income (most likely their parents.) “To many people, the face of the unpaid intern is already that of a young woman whose survival (and possibly It-bag) needs are already being met, and there’s a reason for that,” she wrote.

Twitter Interviews Are Now a Thing, Or Another Reason Life Is Meaningless

gizmodo.com: If you don't want to read a piece about the horrid state of our society, please go no further. Apparently companies are throwing traditional in-person interviews out the window in favor of Twitterviews: Twitter. Interviews.

Martin Launches “Become a Star” 2013 Contest

iSquint.net: Martin Professional just launched their “Become a Star” Young Lighting Designer Contest for 2013. Martin Professional is offering budding lighting designers and technicians the chance of a lifetime via a Young Lighting Designer Contest for Prolight + Sound. The prize? A brand new Martin M2PC lighting controller!

J-O-B ATD

ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR:  Goodspeed Musicals, a LORT B/D musical theatre with a 50 year history, seeks Assistant Technical Director for immediate opening.  Position is year-round, salary plus benefits.  Essential skills include proficiency in AutoCAD (3D a plus), Microsoft Excel, Word and Access. Preferred applicants will be accomplished scenic carpenters with proficiency in carpentry, welding, rigging, automation, and fluid power.  Good language skills, organizational and management ability a must.  Send letter, resume and list of three references to:  Matt Francis, Technical Director;  Goodspeed Musicals; Box A; East Haddam, CT 06423, or email mfrancis@goodspeed.org.

Strong cast dazzles amidst song and dance of 'Moulin Rouge'

TribLIVE: Eclecticism is a virtue in the ballet “Moulin Rouge” by Jorden Morris, which Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre performed for the first time Thursday night in a run of five performances at the Benedum Center, Downtown. Morris created the ballet for the 70th anniversary in 2009 of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Canada. Moulin Rouge is the iconic cabaret that opened in 1889. The story is a dramatically well-constructed love triangle set in a section of Paris where artists and seedier types co-exist, about a decade before the end of the 19th century.

CLO Cabaret's You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!

Theater Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh City Paper: I don't know what the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret is paying Robin Abramson and Gregory Johnstone for appearing in You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!, but this dynamic duo is worth twice the price. Sure, Van Kaplan's facile and fleet direction helps, as does Tony Ferrieri's lovely set. But this longish one-act, in which married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn re-enact the high- (and low-) lights of their relationship, gets all of its sparkle and cheer from the performers.

What made 'Wicked' a classic of 'Phantom' proportions?

Entertainment - The Orange County Register: A little less than 10 years ago, a curious new show called "Wicked" started drawing crowds at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. Even then, its creators knew it was something special. They were right: their prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" is now a member of musical theater's small but elite club of perpetual blockbusters. The Broadway production, which opened October 30, 2003, is approaching its 10th anniversary and its 4,000th performance, and its popularity is showing no signs of waning; houses are routinely sold out. Currently it's the 12th longest-running show in Broadway history.

Arts cuts lead to 'shrivelling' of theatre industry, report says

Stage | The Guardian: The English theatre scene is "shrivelling", according to research, with two-thirds of venues cancelling productions, half producing fewer new plays and commissioning fewer writers, and the same proportion obliged to insist playwrights focus on smaller cast sizes. Sonia Friedman, a successful West End producer, warned of "a short-termism that will damage a multibillion [pound] industry over a generation" – arguing that damage done to theatre as a result of the 30% cut to Arts Council England's budget in 2010 will harm future success in TV, radio and film.

Using Transparency inside of AutoCAD

Lynn Allen's Blog: Transparency was on the AutoCAD wish list for many years before it was finally added into AutoCAD 2011. Transparency actually became an additional object property - much like color, linetype, etc that could be assigned to any object as well as any layer!

John Ensor Parker Talks TEDx and Projection

www.projectionfreak.com: TED talks are all the rage- and this one made my Monday! John Ensor Parker is a projection artist who recently did CODEX Dynamic at the DUMBO Artsfest. His work is pretty fascinating and this video gives just a little glimpse into the process behind making a large-scale work like CODEX happen. Yeah, yeah…we all know it takes servers and projectors and lots of cable- but John emphasizes the importance of knowing where our medium came from….we owe a lot to the past.

Stage preview: 'American Idiot' role pure luck for student

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Alex Nee was a junior and a leading man in college, playing Roger in a Northwestern University production of "Rent." Senior year now is on hold while the 21-year-old is the star of the national tour of "American Idiot," the musical based on Green Day's megahit album. Casting director Jim Carnahan was in the Chicago area in search of players for "Anything Goes" on Broadway and dropped in to see "Rent." "He came because he had nothing to do, and that's what was playing," Mr. Nee said. The next thing Mr. Nee knew, he had an invitation to audition for another show Mr. Carnahan was casting, the U.K. and U.S. tours of "American Idiot."

Preview: Bodiography dance conveys children's grief, healing

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: What starts as an open wound of sorrow often spirals into aching grief and depression for children coping with the loss of a loved one. The hollow a cherished family member leaves behind sometimes triggers an unending flow of emotional anguish. In this stage of the grieving process, into this stream of emotion, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet artistic director Maria Caruso dips her choreographic cup to collect what she calls "the sacred gestures" that inspired her new work, "Whispers of Light," which will premiere Friday and Saturday at Byham Theater, Downtown.

Finding The Lost Art in Las Vegas Architecture

Tested: It looks like this is where signs go to die. But upon closer inspection, it's actually where they've been given a second life. There are giant rusting letters strewn about, outlined by neon while incandescent bulbs handle fill. There are myriad fonts, from lowercase cursive text, to all-caps cowboy western type. And that's to say nothing of the non-typographic signs – the cartoon palm trees and the pool-playing statue and the giant-sized poker chips that peek out from behind countless other designs.

Public Theater's new season to bring back masterpieces

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The familiar and the lauded populate the 2013-14 season announced today by Pittsburgh Public Theater, which has distinctive credits that give producing artistic director Ted Pappas license to title it The Masterpiece Season. It follows on the heels of a season of plays in which "Clybourne Park," "Other Desert Cities" and "Good People" were recent Tony nominees, with "Clybourne Park" winning best play. There's one new play for this new season, and it's based on Homer's "Iliad."

'Tomato' ripe with laughs, relatable topics

TribLIVE: Couple a sweetly romantic guy with a down-to-earth career woman, and the resulting relationship plays out somewhere between “Romeo and Juliet” and “Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?” Inhabiting that middle ground where, on occasion, you want to kill the spouse you also love is familiar territory to anyone who has been married for longer than a few months.

TechShop opening in Bakery Square, a playground for Pittsburgh entrepreneurs

www.popcitymedia.com: If the smell of sawdust and the hum of a milling machine are calling your inner entrepreneur, TechShop may be in your future. The Menlo Park company is opening its seventh workshop studio in the country in early March in Bakery Square, across from Google’s office. The 16,000 square-foot space is shaping up to be a lively and inviting one, splashed with color and tall windows that give curious shoppers a peek within. TechShop is a membership studio, offering sophisticated tools and machinery to make products and prototypes, everything from 3D printers to laser cutters and machines for textiles and quilt making.

Cirque Announces “Michael Jackson ONE”

www.cirquefascination.com: The Estate of Michael Jackson and Cirque du Soleil today unveiled that Michael Jackson ONE™ will open and take residency exclusively at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino this summer. Directed by Jamie King, Michael Jackson ONE will start its preview performances on May 23, 2013 and have its official premiere on June 29, 2013. This entirely new show is the second creative project to be developed between Cirque du Soleil and The Estate of Michael Jackson after the top grossing Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, currently playing arenas in Europe as it travels the world.

How To Do Your Taxes If You’re A Freelancer

TheGrindstone: You’re free! Free to sleep in until 11 a.m., free to work while your adorable toddler plays at your feet, free to … keep really good records of all your expenses for your taxes. We know. Not so fun. The reality is, being self-employed can be awesome for 11 months out of the year, and then come crashing down on your head in the form of lost receipts and unpaid estimated taxes in April. We want to save you from that sinking feeling. Read on for what every freelancer needs to know for your taxes.

J-O-B Drafing

Rigging System Designer / Draftsperson

Fisher Dachs Associates, Theatre Planning and Design, seeks a designer / draftsperson for theatre stage equipment, including manual and motorized rigging, variable acoustics systems, lifts, orchestra enclosures, and unique systems for special projects.

Proficiency in AutoCAD is required, knowledge of Revit strongly preferred.  Skills as a theatre rigger or technical director and safe work practices also preferred.  Position requires the ability to self-manage time and work load.  Experience in lighting/electrical systems is a plus.

The position primarily involves the production of CAD drawings, from initial concept sketches through detailed contract drawings.  Collaboration with architects and engineers, attendance at project meetings, and jobsite punchlist trips are also associated with the position.

Seton Hill's 'Little Women' looks beyond the March sisters

TribLIVE: Seton Hill University Theatre and Dance Program's spring musical, “Little Women,” is a homecoming for guest director Shawn Sturnick. Sturnick, a Greensburg Central Catholic High School alum and 1989 Seton Hill graduate, returns to his alma mater from Isle of Man, an island in the Irish Sea where he has lived for a year after spending five years living and working in Ireland.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at Unseam'd Shakespeare

Theater Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh City Paper: The Unseam'd Shakespeare Co. celebrates its 20th anniversary of distinctive deconstructions of the Bard with something it usually doesn't do: a pretty straightforward rendition of somebody else's Avonian interpretation. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) has been in pretty much eternal production since first unleashed in 1987 by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield for the Reduced Shakespeare Co. (no relation).

Who Made That Pantone Chip?

NYTimes.com: In the early 1960s, as Lawrence Herbert drove to work in a blue Cadillac with cherry red seats, he mulled over a problem: How to create a “universal language” of color. Herbert, the owner of the Pantone printing company, had just produced a retail display card that helped shoppers choose pantyhose. He had to hand-mix the subtle beiges of each swatch, because it was so difficult to buy the exact shade he wanted from an ink manufacturer. Each company defined colors differently, and when you ordered “wheat” or “taupe” or “cream,” you couldn’t predict what you’d get.

GOODMAN: An open letter to theater lovers

Opinion - Press and Guide: At one time or another we have seen a clip from a 1930s Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney film when one of them says to the other: “Let’s get the kids together and put on a show.” It’s easy to imagine that Henry Ford, as described in the Jan. 29 PBS “American Experience” program, saw the debut of one those movies at a private showing at his Fair Lane estate. One also could imagine, perhaps not as easily but with a healthy degree of realistic hope, that in 2013, with the backing of the right kids, a professional repertory company could be launched in Dearborn.